The latest Ian Tyler volume has just arrived a mighty tome it is however when you consider the vast geographic area covered its hardly surprising and in Ian's words it needed to be done this way as the Industry and entrepreneurs involved we so linked. It has been fully researched, with plans, drawings and with supporting black and white photos Most of it is with an area of outstanding natural beauty. Ian has walked over over all the sites , interviewed people and had access to private , company and public records to achieve this, it could have been split into 2 or 3 distinct volumes however its all been combined and tells the complete history of Mining, Quarrying and people of the area.
Ian Tyler, Hardback 654 printed pages price £35.00 + P&P ( I'm using a courier this will be £7.00)
The Chapters include,
Commercial rocks & Minerals if the Pennines, Early History, Brampton Coal, James Thompson 1838, Naworth Coal Company, Geltside & Gairs, Talkin Collieiries, Tarnhouse Collieries, Howgill Junction and Tramway, Coal Fell Valley, Roachburn Super Pit, The Roachburn Disaster and after Distaster Inquiry, The Tindale Spelter, A new Winning on Denton Fell, Prior Bank & Mint Hill Pits, Midgeholme Pits & Halton Lea Gate, Blackburn Coal Pits Nort & South, Hartleyburn Colliery, Lambley Pits East & West Red & White Stone south of Gelt, Eden Valley Coal, Lest we Forget, Renwick Moor Limestone & Coal, Haresceugh to Hartside Coal, The Alston Influence, The Box has it, Hartside Barytes Mines North, Hartside Pass to South to Cross Fell, Thomas Robinson of Ousby, Kirkland & Ardale Head Mines, Cross fell Mines North & South, Dun Fell Mines East, The Smelt Mills, Silverband Mine West, The Big boys move in , Clouds of war, Deadlty testing ground, More and More Baryte 1972, Cragg & Cutris 1976, David Waiting Ltd, Knock and the Heights, Two Miraculous Escapes, Hugh & Low Scald Fell, Dufton Village and its Mines & Quarries, Threlkeside Mines, Hushing Heaven, Dufton Full Lead and Bartye, Sanbar Minerals Ltd, Mines of High Cup Nick, The White Mines, Hilton and Scordale Mines, Masons Hole or Halls?, John Bland entrepreneur, Hilton a Mining Village, Wilson and Dow Scar workings, Snow Gill and Amber Gill, After the London Lead Company, William Bill Wharton after 1930, the Trouble with Explosives, Roman Fell to Brough, The Dream Come True 1939, New Army Range required 1942, A Trainee Arrives, Media Moguls, Beyond Long Fell, North of Brough, Lunehead Lead Mines, J G Renynoldson, Closehhouse Mine, Out of the Blue, Augill Lead Mine, Lead, Baryte & Coal under Stainmore, The Borrowdale Colliery, The Mines of Kirby Stephen, Nateby to Wild Boar Fell, Settle to Carlisle Railway line, On No Not Again, Mallerstang its mines and Mysteries, Mines and Coal Seams of Wild Boar Fell, Clouds & Stennerskeugh Workings, Kirkby Londsdale Area, Glossary of Terms, Miners & Workers Names, Bibliography